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	Early Canada Historical Narratives -- ELIZABETH POSTHUMA SIMCOE, PART 1
		Elizabeth Posthuma Gwillim Simcoe was born in Aldwincle, Northhampton, on September 22, 1762.
		Elizabeth was taught French and German by a governess, as well as music and art at which she excelled.
		Elizabeth to use her own words was "often in that way," bearing a daughter almost every year until 1791 when with "girls enough," the longed-for son and heir, Francis Gwillim, was born.
	www.uppercanadahistory.ca /puc/puc1.html (1297 words)

	Elizabeth Simcoe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Elizabeth Gwillim, gentlewoman, author and artist, was baptized on 22 September 1762 in Aldwincle, England according to the Dictionary of Canadian Biography.
		She married John Graves Simcoe on 30 December 1782, at the age of twenty, if the date of birth given by the DCB is correct.
		Simcoe, on the front lawn; a handwritten copy of a letter from her daughter, Sophia Simcoe, originally written in June 1835, mentioning her mother and Mrs.
	library.mcmaster.ca /archives/findaids/fonds/s/simcoe.htm (227 words)

	Elizabeth Simcoe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the village of Whitchurch in Herefordshire, England (the date and city of birth are uncertain), Elizabeth Postuma Gwillim was born to Elizabeth Spinckes and Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Gwillim.
		Katherine Simcoe, the only daughter of Elizabeth and John to be born in Upper Canada, died in childhood of unknown causes; she is buried at Fort York Garrison.
		Elizabeth wrote of another occasion when, in the course of a week, she played cards three times and had tea and biscuits twice with the Lord and Lady Dorchester.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elizabeth_Simcoe (324 words)

	Early Canada Historical Narratives -- ELIZABETH POSTHUMA SIMCOE, PART 2
		Simcoe kept three versions of her diary: the initial one was a brief daily record with rough sketches; the other two were expanded variations with greater detail and clearer writing.
		Simcoe was disappointed that they saw no rattlesnakes for she was fascinated and fearful of them.
		Simcoe's fervor never flagged and she eagerly explored the peninsula which became Toronto Island when the lake broke through and severed the narrow sandbar in 1854.
	www.uppercanadahistory.ca /puc/puc2.html (1282 words)

	The Antigonish Review 143: Eric Miller Essay
		Elizabeth Simcoe is a writer of the eye trained in 1790s Picturesque imperatives which holds that each landscape differs from the rest sufficiently to captivate an observer who demands novelty.
		Elizabeth Simcoe, for her part, lives in expectation of change: the province has only just begun, but settlers are pouring in from points south and east.
		Simcoe painted the rudiments of settlement with the devotion that artists in Europe expended on the remnants of the past.
	www.antigonishreview.com /bi-143/143-essay-eric-miller.html (4093 words)

	Ontario Heritage Trust - John Graves Simcoe — Ontario's First Lieutenant-Governor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Simcoe was an innovative tactician and, on the battlefield, one of the army's most successful commanders.
		When the Simcoe family arrived at Quebec City on November 11, it was too late in the season to make the journey to Upper Canada and they spent the winter in Quebec becoming familiar with Canadian social life and the responsibilities of the office of lieutenant-governor.
		Simcoe was "delighted with the beauty of the Country and Industry of the Inhabitants" and soon began to implement his plans to develop the province.
	www.heritagefdn.on.ca /userfiles/HTML/nts_1_2724_1.html (1185 words)

	Elizabeth Simcoe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In 1782, Elizabeth Gwillin met and married the Godson of Admiral Graves, John Graves Simcoe.
		Simcoe was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada in 1791, and the couple moved with part of their family to Newark (Niagara-On-the-Lake).
		In 1793, Elizabeth moved to York (Toronto), and in 1793 she agian moved, this time to Quebec to avoid potential war with the Americans.
	socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca /~mas/dundurn/esimcoe.htm (207 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		Elizabeth was a wealthy woman, with extensive inheritances from both her father and her mother.
		Mrs Simcoe’s letters to Mrs Hunt at Wolford, in whose care she left her children in 1791, are in AO, MS 517, B1-1; family correspondence, especially after 1800, is on the PAC microfilm.
		Mary Anne Burges’s diary-letters to Mrs Simcoe are divided between the AO collection (MS 517, B1-2) and the PAC microfilm (MG 23, H1, 1, ser.5, folder 29); they are useful for their picture of life at Wolford, and also because Miss Burges answered Mrs Simcoe’s missing Canadian letters in detail.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=37540 (1833 words)

	Travels With Elizabeth Simcoe: John Graves Simcoe
		Simcoe began the process of road construction and the survey of town and rural lots on which organized settlement were to be based.
		In 1806 Simcoe was appointed to the command of British forces in India, but during a diplomatic mission to Portugal he became seriously ill and died shortly after returning to England.
		As the first incumbent in the office, Simcoe established the basis of government that was to endure in the province for the next fifty years.
	www.archives.gov.on.ca /english/exhibits/simcoe/john.htm (715 words)

	Founding of Toronto, 1793
		Simcoe had arrived there on July 26, 1792 to organize his government, and the first meeting was held six weeks later on September 17.
		Simcoe had travelled by sleigh with Chief Joseph Brant in February of 1792 to Detroit and had been impressed with the London area.
		Elizabeth Simcoe fell in love with Toronto and set about exploring the area, describing it in her diary and sketching various scenes.
	www.angelfire.com /mo2/dwismer/history3.html (631 words)

	CM Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Elizabeth was determined to accompany him, and she and her close friend Mary Anne Burges promised to keep in touch through letter-journals.
		The Simcoes visited all the settlements in the new territory, and they were required to entertain all the most important travellers in their "realm." Elizabeth suffered the attacks of summertime mosquitoes and often travelled by small bateau, or canoe.
		Elizabeth lived on for years after her husband died, filling her days with good works, travel, manifold interests, and involvement with a wide circle of acquaintances, friends and family members.
	www.umanitoba.ca /cm/cmarchive/vol18no3/elizabeth.html (313 words)

	Simcoe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Simcoe, a town in southwestern Ontario, near Lake Erie.
		Simcoe North, a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario.
		Simcoe South, Simcoe East and Simcoe Centre, former federal electoral districts located in the province of Ontario.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Simcoe (191 words)

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		Elizabeth Gwillim Simcoe died in 1850 at the age of eighty-seven.
		John Simcoe had proposed London and Toronto because of their greater distance from the United States border thus offering greater security in the event of future war with the United States.
		John Simcoe ordered the construction of a network of roads throughout Upper Canada for the purpose of providing rapid transportation of soldiers and equipment in the event of future war.
	www.weloveontario.com /section2.html (1439 words)

	Parishes ease into changes in liturgy from Vatican
		Simcoe explain the changes before one liturgy and stay in the front of the church for the Mass to demonstrate them.
		Simcoe also suggested that parishes might consider training a "core group" of parishioners who can demonstrate the changes to others during liturgies each week until the community remembers them.
		Simcoe cited the General Instruction for the Roman Missal (the book that contains the order of the Mass), which says that "any semblance of individuality is to be shunned.
	www.evangelist.org /archive/htm5/0520litu.htm (575 words)

	Elizabeth Simcoe - WikiLeasing.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In commemoration of her mother, Elizabeth was given the name "Posthuma." After Elizabeth was baptized the same day as her mother's burial, she was aken into the care of her mother’s younger sister, Margaret, who married Admiral Samuel Graves in 1769.
		In her diary, Elizabeth states that, in a span of fifteen days, she attended to four parties at the home of Lord and LLady Dorchester.
		Elizabeth erote of another occasion when, in the course of a week, she played cards three times and had tea and biscuits twice with the Lord and Lady Dorchester.
	www.wikileasing.com /12/Elizabeth_Simcoe.html (328 words)

	Pikle - The Diary Junction - Elizabeth Simcoe
		Elizabeth was born at Aldwincle, Northamptonshire, to Elizabeth Spinckes and Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Gwillim, but her father died before she was born and her mother died in childbirth.
		She met and married John Simcoe, a godson of Graves, in 1782.
		When Simcoe was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada in 1791, the couple moved there, to live in Newark.
	www.pikle.demon.co.uk /diaryjunction/data/simcoe.html (357 words)

	The Old Court Hotel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Elizabeth Gwillim Simcoe room is named after the most famous daughter of the family who was a diarist and artist.
		The John Graves Simcoe room, No. 20 is equally spacious and includes portraits and prints which recollect our hero’s adventures in the American War of Independence and his period as First Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada 1791-96.
		6 illustrates the Simcoes family home at Wolford House near Honiton, Devon and Wolford Chapel the family chapel they built and where they are buried side by side, together with five of their children.
	www.oldcourthotel.co.uk /hotel_pages/rooms.html (394 words)

	Castle Frank House
		The Simcoes built a summer home on the crest of this ridge, which they named for their son, Francis.
		Elizabeth Simcoe tells us in her diary (October 29, 1794) “We went 6 miles by water & landed, climbed up an exceeding steep hill or rather a series of sugar loafed Hills & approved of the highest spot from where we looked down on the tops of large trees.
		Elizabeth used Castle Frank as a summerhouse and country retreat, going up the Don by sleigh in winter or through the woods in summer for picnics and parties.
	www.lostrivers.ca /points/CastleFrank.htm (407 words)

	More on Elizabeth !
		Elizabeth had never ever been to America before and she had heard about it from her husband who use to work for the British officer during the American war.
		Elizabeth and her husband stayed at Canada until July 1796 and they never returned to Canada again.
		Elizabeth's art and her Canadian dairies are very popular in Canada.
	schools.cbe.ab.ca /b382/showcase/room14/sakina/page3.html (114 words)

	Education to precede implementation in Diocese (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The new translation includes some changes in the way Mass is celebrated, but Elizabeth Simcoe, director of the diocesan Office of Prayer and Worship, said the differences are more "refinements" than major changes in the liturgy.
		Simcoe wasn't sure why it took so long for the new translation to be released, but she said that one problem was in translating certain words from the Latin version of the Missal.
		Simcoe said there are instances where leaving the sanctuary would be allowed.
	www.evangelist.org /archive/htm4/0424miss.htm (548 words)

	Ontario Heritage Trust - International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		It was built by John Graves Simcoe (1752-1806), the first Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, to serve as a place of worship for his family on their estate.
		It is also the burying place of Simcoe, his wife Elizabeth Posthuma Gwillim Simcoe (1766-1850), and six of their 11 children.
		Elizabeth Simcoe accompanied her husband to Upper Canada and recorded many of her experiences in her diaries.
	www.heritagefdn.on.ca /userfiles/HTML/nts_1_7786_1.html (349 words)

	Simcoe - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Hybrid-hop Simcoe is hot: Its popularity comes from citrus aroma, strong but pleasurable bitterness
		Interview: Robert J. Simcoe discusses the development of the transistor radio on its 50th anniversary
		The Corporation of the County of Simcoe Implements pbviews as its Performance Management Solution.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-simcoe.html (196 words)

	GOLDEN \| EICHENBERG PROJECTS - SIMCOE MEMORIAL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		This project commemorates the contributions of Governor John Graves Simcoe and Elizabeth Simcoe to the founding of the City of Toronto.
		Within the context of the Campsite, an assembly of articles and emblems is composed to describe the cultural environment of the Simcoes as Toronto's founding citizens.
		The Tent evokes the experience of the " canvas house " where the Simcoes camped and from where they embarked upon their historic excursions.
	www.the-site.com /simcoe.htm (166 words)

	Search:simcoe - Copernic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Simcoe was born at Cotterstock, England in 1752, the only son of John and Katherine Simcoe.
		Simcoe was selected as the Lieutenant-Governor, and made plans to move to Upper...
		This is Simcoe, a record of things that make me think of other things.
	metaresults.copernic.com /copern.main/search/web/simcoe (277 words)

	Queen Street: Thematic Preview
		It is her husband John who gets credit for founding the town, but it is to Elizabeth Simcoe we have turned, ever since, for our sense of this place as they found it more that 200 years ago.
		Elizabeth Simcoe's daughter Katherine, age 15 months, was the first person interred there, in 1794; the last was Private James McQuarrick, in 1863.
		In 1838 a maid at the Legislature in Simcoe Place warned George Markland, age 48 and Inspector General of Upper Canada: "Your Movements about this Building in the Evenings are being watched, and have become the Subject of conjecture." He had been seen with soldiers, some boys in the regimental band.
	www.rbebout.com /queen/libtrin/2pgarr.htm (8779 words)

	Notable Owners (continued) of Hemyock Castle, Devon
		In 1806, shortly before he was due to assume command of British forces in India, General Simcoe died of a sudden illness contracted during a diplomatic mission to Portugal.
		His widow, Mrs Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe (née Gwillim) was recorded as the owner of the manor of Hemyock.
		In 1822 and again in 1850 Mrs Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe was recorded still to be in possession of the manor.
	www.hemyockcastle.co.uk /famous2.htm (1088 words)

	Travels With Elizabeth Simcoe: A Visual Journey Through Upper and Lower Canada
		Elizabeth Simcoe was the wife of John Graves Simcoe, the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada.
		Elizabeth was an accomplished artist and, between 1791 and 1796, as she travelled throughout Upper and Lower Canada, produced a large number of sketches and watercolours depicting Canadian scenes.
		She was also an avid diarist and wrote about many of her experiences.
	www.archives.gov.on.ca /english/exhibits/simcoe/index.html (295 words)

	Parasol Lane Productions \| Press Clippings
		Maja Bannerman returns to Fort York to perform as Elizabeth Simcoe, the wife of John Graves Simcoe, Upper Canada’s first lieutenant governor (1791- 1796).
		Elizabeth kept extensive diaries of her travels and her life in York (now Toronto).
		Bannerman portrays Elizabeth as she hosts a farewell tea at Fort York in 1796 and shares stories of her incredible life in Upper Canada.
	www.parasollane.ca /tours.html (309 words)

	Canada in the Making - Aboriginals: Treaties & Relations
		In 1791, John Graves Simcoe became the first lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada.
		Simcoe extended his invitation to those who were neutral and hadn't taken up arms against the British during the American Revolution.
		Lady Elizabeth Simcoe - the wife of John Graves Simcoe, Upper Canada's first lieutenant-governor - kept diaries and sketches of her life in Upper Canada during the late 1700s.
	www.canadiana.org /citm/themes/pioneers/pioneers4_e.html (2251 words)

	Canuckchicks.com: Canadian trivia, Canadian pop culture, and Canadiana.
		In 1970, Chatelaine gave its readers the scoop on Voice of Man in Toronto (VOMIT) – an anti-feminist group whose members were committed to seeking "release from a lifetime’s service as a free meal ticket for an intellectually inferior woman and the brood she forces on us."
		Elizabeth Simcoe – wife of Upper Canada’s first lieutenant governor, John Graves Simcoe – had her own ideas about roughing it in the bush.
		Some of the "necessities" she brought with her to Canada included a boatload of ball gowns, jewellery, sterling silver, and a French chef.
	www.canuckchicks.com /trivia3.htm (312 words)

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